About Ricardo

Today, Ricardo is the largest online marketplace in Switzerland with over 1.5 million listed items and more than 2 million users. We aim to improve our platform, innovate, grow the marketplace even further. If you enjoy challenges at scale, high energy work, and are creative in the solutions you bring, we are excited to hear from you!

About us

Ricardo engineering is the largest part of EPD - a unified Engineering, Product and Design department. We work cross-functionally, with around 6-8 teams active on different topics at once. We share a hack day-style way of working, with weekly public stand-ups and demos, strong self-organization, and individual responsibility. With over 40 engineers, and three offices (Zug - Switzerland, Belgrade - Serbia, Valbonne - France), we work closely with our colleagues across borders. Together, we partake in workshops, hack days, and organise special events/projects for innovation, learning, and experiments. Our culture is geek, our working style is agile, and our mindset is collaborative.

Job description:

The Front End Engineer play an essential role in our team. They work closely with the Product Managers and Designers. They use modern and proven tools such as Node.js, Express, React/Redux, Material UI, Jest, etc. on a daily basis. In addition to online sites and applications, they develop the libraries that simplify their lives. Their goal: to make sure our product stays great to use everywhere: on an HD screen with a fiber connection as well as on a basic phone with an unstable 3G.

Role & Responsibilities:

Designing and reviewing technical solutions, as well as driving architecture definitions
Ensuring compliance to internal standards and practices
Developing solutions (design, code, tests, documentation) along with the team
Mentoring and coaching of engineers
Contributing to the technical roadmap through architecture meetings, design documents

Benefits:

Strong engineering culture, empowerment and trust
Working on a very popular product (90% recognition) in Switzerland
Training and conference budget available for every Engineer
Home office
Video games, table soccer, sports offering over lunch
Fresh fruits, Free coffee
Lunch ticket
and much more…

Please send cover letter and CV in English.

• 5+ years of relevant engineering work experience
• Hands on experience with Node.js, Javascript or Typescript, REST APIs, databases and building modern web experiences using technologies such as React, Vue, Angular
• Excellent troubleshooting and web performance analysis skills
• You shipped several projects with dependencies between teams
• You have excellent coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns.
• You worked well in a highly collaborative environment
• You’re into user experience, design topics and love crafting beautiful websites

It’s not expected that a single candidate has expertise in all these areas. We’re looking for professional engineers, who can quickly learn and adapt as our systems and situation changes, rather than candidates with a rigid skill set.

The main steps with Hiring process are:

• 1rst call
• Exercice to do at home
• Technical interview (remotly)
• People interview (Project manager, a team, RH, CEO…) (on site and/or remotly)